Hello and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short, The Drive‘s morning news roundup that gathers the biggest automotive headlines from around the world. The Downshift summarizes stories into a few sentences and adds links for those
BMW has taken Mini to some unexpected places since it resurrected the brand in 2000, stretching the iconic hatch into wagons and SUVs and even squishing it down to a “coupe” festooned with a backwards
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Toyota is a legendary auto manufacturer known for its reliable vehicles that depreciate slowly. How slowly? These are the models that hold their value the best.
This was the only Daytona personally owned by Carroll Shelby, and it shattered the previous mark of $22 million set by a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ in 2018.
With over 200 cars competing, the Duesenberg took home the title of Best of Show, beating out a 1938 Delahaye and two different Ferrari 375s.
When it comes to off-the-line speed, Toyota’s hybrid family SUV wipes the floor with more than a few sports cars that ruled the streets just a few decades ago.
The Vision BMW ALPINA made its North American debut Friday morning at The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering. But the roadshow continued from there. Next, the design study moved to Hagerty House for a series of
MINI is flipping its own signature upside down for the fifth installment of its 2026 Icon Drops campaign, and this time the joke is on the roof. MINI has built an entire identity around the
Ronnie Fieg’s latest project with BMW starts from a specific question: what if BMW M had built the original X5? The Kith BMW E53 takes the first-generation X5 and re-engineers it around one of the
